A collection of audio & video workshops on a blues guitar trick I picked up wandering the Philadelphia subway system.


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Artist/Composer: Patrick Costello

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Audio Files (tab examples are in the subway.txt file):
Lesson One: The Shuffle
Tuning up, the basic picking pattern, making an E chord and adding the hammer-on and vamp that creates the shuffle rhythm

Lesson Two: Chord Changes
Rolling into an A chord while keeping the shuffle beat.

Lesson Three: Back To Basics
With all of the beginners we have tuning in it seems like a goiod idea to go over some basic rhythm concepts.

Lesson Four: The Killer B
Three variations on the B chord.

Lesson Five: Boogie Shuffle
Chord variations and a boogie bass line.

Lesson Six: Bass Runs & Scales
In the sixth workshop we'll take a look at the E scale, learn a bass run and then tie it into the subway shuffle.

Lesson Seven: Bass Runs & Scales in A
In the seventh workshop we'll take a look at the A scale, learn a bass run, tie it into the subway shuffle and end up with a simple pattern we can use to create turnaround licks.

Lesson Eight: Chord Progressions
In the eighth workshop we'll take a look at chord progressions.

Lesson Nine: The Key of C
In the ninth workshop we begin exploring the key of C.

Lesson Ten: The Bloody Agonizing Chord Of Death
Fun with the F chord.

Lesson Eleven: Playing & Singing
Dear Old Dad joins us to sing Hesitation Blues

Lesson Twelve: How The Pinch Stole Christmas
A bad pun, but you get the idea. Pinching, playing scales against an alternating bass and Railroad Bil

video Files:
guitar.rm: A short video on the picking pattern in RealPlayer format
subway-shuffle.mp4: Another short video

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